Bodies...that's all they were, but they made him feel so sick. Blood pouring from open wounds. The screaming had stopped a short while ago but in his shocked state of mind, Ed had no idea of time. He could have been there days, tied up in the corner, forced to watch his family butchered and slowly dying. The tears came easy.

Officer Goodridge had been on patrol when he got the phone call. There had been lots of loud screaming coming from Poplar Lane. It didn't take him long to get there and he was soon pulling over and getting out. It was quiet now, but that didn't change anything. He got to the door and rung the doorbell...Nothing. He stroked his beard...What now? Then he glance down and had to do a double take. Blood. Without a moments thought he tried the door. It was unlocked. The trail of blood was leading upstairs. He followed.

The first thing that Officer Goodridge noticed as he entered the main bedroom was the bodies. A man, a woman and a young girl. He collapsed to his knees and was sick on the floor. Each of them had been cut open. Then he turned and noticed the boy. He was about eighteen years old. He had a mohickhan, a leather jacket, and was tied to a chair in the corner. He was sobbing. He looked terrified.

Officer Goodridge sat down at the police station with the boy. The boy was in shock but was beginning to talk. Goodridge was worried about the boy's state of mind. The situation he had been put in was so horrific that it could seriously damage anyone. "Don't worry" said Goodridge "Your Aunt and Uncle are on their way. They'll be here soon."

Time went on and Ed Jenkins Aunt and Uncle showed up. They were very upset and the Officer tried to comfort them by telling them that they were certain of who the murderer was and that he wouldn't get away with it. The murderer was named Tony Brown. In the background Ed listened.

Later Ed's Aunt and Uncle took him to their house. Officer Goodridge had taken it upon himself to go and get some of Ed's things from the house and had just returned. He passed the last bag to Ed.

"Here you go Ed, I'll bring you some more of your things tomorrow when I have more time, okay?"

"Thank you" replied Ed quietly.

Ed's Aunt turned to the officer. "Thank you so much for everything you've done. It means alot."

"That's okay and if ever you need anything you've got my phone number. And don't worry we will catch him. We've got men standing by at the house. I've heard that the last time he did this he returned to the crime scene later on. Anyway i'd better be off" he started heading for the door "Bye Ed"

"Bye"

It wasn't many days after that there was the funeral and Goodridge went there with Ed and Ed's Aunt and Uncle as he felt that he needed to look after Ed from now on. When the funeral was over Goodridge drove them home. That night Ed went up into his new bedroom and put a record on. As the marching feet of Holidays In The Sun by The Sex Pistols got louder and louder, Ed started to feel like he was being watched. He felt scared. He went to the door but suddenly, out of a white spiraling mass of gas appeared a man in a business suit.

"Hello Ed." He said.

Ed started to back away.

"No don't be scared." Said the man. He turned and shut the door behind him.

"HELP!" shouted Ed.

"There's no point in shouting. They won't hear you and anyway i'm not here to hurt you."

"Well what do you want then?"

"I, well my race, would like you to become a warrior?"

"What?"

"Okay well this may take a little while to explain but if you just take a seat" the man pointed over to the bed. Ed went over and sat down.

"My name is The Entity"

"That's a stupid name"

The Entity seemed put off by this and started again "My name is The Entity. My race...employs....people who are....different and gives them special powers so that they can be warriors. These warriors can then use their powers to fight evil, from things such as demons to common criminals."

"Does that include the man who murdered my family?"
"...Yes but....I can't allow you to kill him."

"Why not?"
"If you kill him then...it's just difficult. You will be arrested and we'll need to wait for another human to be put in a situation like the one you've recently been in. The humans must punish him within the extent of the law. You, of course, can help the police catch him."

"I'll do it."

"Good" said The Entity. He raised closed right hand up to Ed and then opened it. A gas almost like the one that The Entity had appeared from left his hand and flew into Ed. Then The Entity spoke "But be warned if you misuse your gift then you shall be punished."

"But how does this work then?" questioned Ed.

"At night time you will be somewhat possessed by Fear. Fear is your alter ego. You have several different powers which you can use as Fear but also in your normal state. You can create a soundbarrier around you so that no-one can hear you if they are outside it. I'm using one now in fact. You have no fingerprints when you are Fear so you will never have any trouble with the police. You will notice that you have a kind of sixth sense about things. As Fear your strength will be alot higher. You will also have sometimes prophetic dreams but these will only last for your first year as Fear. You can create illusions and you can also transform your appearance. Those last two powers are very very handy for frightening your human enemies. Never fails."

"That's alot to remember."

"Don't worry i'll guide you every now and then, you won't be alone. Anyway i've got to be going. Bye."

And with that The Entity vanished.

That night Ed couldn't sleep. He'd been having nightmares recently and now with the strangeness of his latest predicament he just couldn't sleep. He sat up reading the book of Star Wars. As Luke Skywalker and his Uncle Owen dealt with the buying of Droids it started to remind Ed of his own situation. Luke had lost both his parents and was now living with his Aunt and Uncle. Later in the story he would be given strange powers by a mysterious man who would teach about how to use the skills properly. There were many stories throughout history like this and it made Ed wonder if those stories were inspired by real events. He didn't have the change to think about it much longer. He glanced up at his mirror to see his skin going rotten and his mohickan collapsing to become a strange tangle of black hair. Soon he could see that he was like a shadow. Black and floating somehow. It was then that he realised that levitation was another one of his powers. It was also in this moment that he realised that Ed was gone and Fear was here.

Fear floated quietly downstairs and unlocked the front door. He floated out and locked it behind him. He headed for his old house. At the station he remembered hearing that the killer often returned to his crime scenes and Fear had a strong feeling that tonight was the night. As he arrived outside he heard a noise. A girl screaming. It was coming from next door. The front door was open and he floated up the stairs. The situation was almost the same as the one he had been in not so long before except that the parents of the girl, who was even Ed's age, were not dead quite yet. The girl, tied to a chair in the corner, screamed even more when she saw him. Then he saw him...Tony Brown. Fear attacked Tony punching him again and again and again. Tony tried to fight back by slashing at Fear with his knife. Fear quickly backed off. Tony ran down the stairs. Fear chased after him but bumped into The Entity who suddenly appeared in front of him. "MOVE!" said Fear.

"No" said The Entity "If you don't phone for an ambulance and wait here then they could die. You'll have to get him another time."
"Why can't you phone and wait here, then I can go after him?"
"Because one day I won't be here to help you and so you've got to deal with the situation as if I am not here. I can only teach you." But that wasn't the only reason, The Entity knew that if Fear, under Ed's current control, went after Tony then Tony would be killed and that wasn't the deal.

Fear realised that The Entity was right. He phoned the police so that they could sent some cops and an ambulance. He waited with the girl. He kept telling her it would be alright but he wasn't sure it would be. They were injured pretty badly. Then after a while Fear heard sirens.

"It's the police" he said to the girl "Please don't mention me."

"Thank you" she said.

Fear paused for a second and then floated down the stairs and out onto the street.

He was in a forrest with a different girl, a girl he'd never seen before. The girl was so beautiful even as she nawed into the flesh of the deer. The blood all over her lips.

When Ed woke up he felt like he'd been out all night drinking. He only had vague recollections of what had happened but as the day passed he remembered more and more. The girl had been lucky, he thought, if only someone had been there for my family when...but they weren't. Ed knew that life wasn't going to be easy from now on but he also knew that he would never give up on his hunt for Tony Brown. Next time he'd get him.